Out of East Africa: the show must go on for Uganda Orphans and Batwa Pygmies, in the wake of cross-border violence, civil wars, disease and devastation.(SPECIAL SECTION: CULTURES IN PERIL)
American Theatre, May, 2005 by Nottage, Lynn
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How far will you go to find a play? I found my answer last summer when on a whim I purchased a plane ticket to Uganda in hot pursuit of an idea. Director Kate Whoriskey and I had long bandied about the notion of creating a theatre piece centered around the lives of women and girls caught in the middle of the devastating armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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It was all wonderfully abstract, until I convinced Kate that the only way to understand the physical, social and psychological consequences of war on women in Africa was to hear the firsthand accounts of ...
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